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Oracle® Database Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14249-01
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What's New in Large Objects?

This section describes the new features in the following releases:

LOB Features Introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 2

Insert, update, and select of remote LOBs is supported, subject to some remaining restrictions.

Read and write of LOB data for multiple locators is supported by new OCI functions.

The JDBC 3.0 API is now supported for Java access to LOBs.


See Also:

"Using Java (JDBC) to Work with LOBs"

The Data Interface is now supported in Java.


See Also:

"Using the Data Interface for Persistent LOBs in Java"

Some phases of online redefinition of LONG-to-LOB migration can execute in parallel.


See Also:


Directory objects can be managed by Enterprise Manager Web console.


See Also:

"Directory Objects"

Three new LOB session-level statistics are now available to users: LOB reads, LOB writes, and LOB writes unaligned.


See Also:

"LOB Access Statistics"

Restrictions Removed in Oracle Database 10g Release 2

The following restrictions on LOB features were removed in Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

LOB Features Introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 1

The following features are introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1):

Restrictions Removed in Oracle Database 10g Release 1

The following restrictions on LOB features were removed in Oracle Database 10g Release 1:

LOB Features Introduced in Oracle9i Release 2

This section describes features introduced in Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2).

This release introduces new PL/SQL APIs with improved features for loading binary and character data from LOBs:

Restrictions Removed in Oracle9i Release 2

The following restrictions are removed in Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2):

LOB Features Introduced in Oracle9i Release 1

The following LOB features were introduced in Oracle9i Release 1 (9.0.1):

Restrictions Removed in Oracle9i Release 1

This section describes restrictions removed in Oracle9i Release 1 (9.0.1).

In earlier releases, you could not call functions and procedures in DBMS_LOB packages from client-side PL/SQL. This restriction is removed in release version 9.0.1. In this release, you can call DBMS_LOB functions and procedures from client-side or server-side PL/SQL.